The Dillon tribune., 1887-10-21

aLEANINGs FROM THE ROCKIES.

0LEAN1NGS FkON THE KUCA1ESs
Events Transptring in Our sister States
and Territories.
a number Of Wood River Udaho) mi.
ncrs arc talking Of going to Alaska mex,
spring
Work is being pushed persistently and
vigorously on the Wyoming Territorial
capitol at Cheyenne.
The placer mines at Dun Glen, Hum.
bodt county, Nevada, are paying from S.
to $S per day to the man.
Thos. II. Corbett, Tor seventeen years
resident Of Denver, Colo, is in the Arapa.
hoe county Jail for bigamy.
A horse thief named Stcary escaped from
the Cheyenne, Wyo, Jail but was captured
at Denver and returned to the Cheyenne
pen.
Large numbers Of miners arc leaving the
Reese River, Nevada, country owing to the
shutting down Of the Manhattan company's
mills.
The undertakers of Oregon, Washing.
ton, Idaho and Montana met at Portland.
i Oregon, on the 18th and formed an associ-
alton for mutual Improvement
Charley Parker, who robbed Paymaster
Bush OF $1,000 LAST spring, pleaded guilty
in court at Cheyenne, Wyo., on last Fri.
day and was sentenced t. five years in the
pcnitcn,ary. No fine was imposed.
Sam Davis won the slow race at Carson,
Ne"ada, the other day and now the boys
claim his wife "coached" him by signals,
raising Or lowering the baby to indicate
whether he should go faster or slower.
The bank failure at Cheyenne, Wyom.
ing, was due to the depression in the cattle
trade. But the failure does not seem 10 be
a very serious one. Every one of the cred.
itors of the bank will probably be paid dol
lar for dollar.
The Grand Lodge OF Idaho OF the In.
dependent Order of Odd Fellows held IFS
fifth annual session at Boise City recently.
Delegates were present from twenty -onc
lodges, which with the officers, made about
forty attendants.
The Malad (Utah Enterprise of a recent
date says: +. 6. Mather, OF Salmon City,
is in this city purchasing COWS. We TN.
deretand that he has carload Of Jerseys
coming from the East, and that lie proposes
to enter largely into the dairy business.
In a drunken row lately at Trinidad
Colo, a tough called "Ted" cut the iugu-
lar vein of one of his companions with q
razor, and the victim dropped dead. The
dead man was afterwards identified as las
Redwood, aged s. years, n paper hanger
and painter.
Walla Walla T"iom: They are festive
NJ in Wallowa county at the country
dances. When the last co,ilion is formed
and the music strikes up the manager
shouts: "Grab your pistols; allmand left
gals out doors; gents swing and shoot"
The last change generally winds up the
basiness, and the manned and killed are
dragged out to make room for the break
fast table.
A Los Angeles, Cal, dispatch OF the ,tl,
says: a few days ago the burned remain
of a man was found in the ruins OF a barn
at Compton, near this city, The body was
burned beyond recognition, but was be
licved to be that of Dr. Harlan. q well
Ano"n dentist and sporting man OF this
city. a girl named Hattie Wolstcen, who
came here recently from Peoria, H., was
arrested on suspicion, and last night her
sister, Niynie Wolsteer, made a statcmcn,
that Harlan had been the cause of Hattic's
ruin, and that on the night of the suppos
; ed murder the pair went riding in the tli
rectnn OF Compton, when Hattie threat
curd to expose iiarlan's conduct. Hay
Ian hI; a wife and family in this city, and
!.at,ie's threats frightened Harlan, he,
s;>:r: states, :hat he shot himself in tle
carriage. lis companion feared the re
salts oi being iouu,: with the dead BODY
SO she took it 70 the barn, set fire ,o the
building and escaped.